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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by maccard on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:30PM (#45541500)
> this is cutting it way too fine.

Either this is true, or this is why there’s a 45 minute reserve requirement. There were three failed landing attempts in two airports prior to the successful landing, and they spent almost as much time attempting to land as the scheduled flight took.

Seems like this was exactly the scenario it was designed for?

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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by jacquesm on Friday October 10, 2025 @01:53PM (#45541799)
No, this is what should never happen. I wrote fuel estimation software for cargo 747's and the one thing I would have never ever wanted to read is that an airliner of the company I worked for had landed with too little fuel.
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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by MagicMoonlight on Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:21AM (#45546801)
Right but this is an emergency… they didn’t plan to run out of fuel
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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by jacquesm on Saturday October 11, 2025 @02:09AM (#45547005)
Clearly, that's why it makes the news.
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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by 7952 on Saturday October 11, 2025 @06:08AM (#45547929)
Are there ever situations where running into the reserve would be a good trade off?
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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by jacquesm on Saturday October 11, 2025 @10:46AM (#45549561)
This one. The reserve is there in the same way that a crash barrier is there on the highway. You really don't ever want to use it, but when you do use it and it ends well you treat it just as seriously as though you would treat a crash.
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Re:Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minu... by hshdhdhehd on Friday October 10, 2025 @06:23PM (#45544520)
I would imagine 6 min fuel left was designed for something extreme. Maybe involving damage to aircraft limiting where it can land etc. Or extreme weather event such had high winds affecting all airports within 500 miles.
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